Stijn Van Dorpe

2 September 2017

the short cut healing sessions (living room XL)

being together apart - gesprek: 05/06/2017

Being Together Apart is een work in progress dat in tegenstelling tot Short Cut Tarwewijk vertrekt van bestaande dissensuele contexten. In verschillende Europese steden wil ik telkens politieke en activistische groepen met een radicale progressieve visie op de democratische waarden ‘gelijkheid’ en ‘vrijheid’ samenbrengen. Dit project kende voorjaar 2017 een eerste onderzoekcase in Praag en zal verder uitgewerkt worden in andere steden. Het project heeft tot doel een fictief en utopisch politiek model na te bootsen als tegengewicht voor de huidige politieke status quo. Het werk vertrekt van een protocol waarbij de gevoerde gesprekken en discussies die ik organiser met deze groepen, tijdens participatieve productieprocessen verwerkt worden tot monumentale patchwerken. De quilts bestaan uit de logo’s van de organisaties en schema’s van diagrammen die de ideologische posities van de groepen en hun diverse antwoorden op maatschappelijke uitdagingen weergeven.

onderzoeksfase, Praag, (Meetfactory), 2017

During his stay in the MeetFactory, Stijn Van Dorpe has been researching forms of ideology that offer a counterweight for the presumed natural and as such invisible ideology of neoliberalism. Van Dorpe invited different Prague based ideological groups that all assume a radical approach towards different inequalities (caused by capitalist society), to have a common meeting and to discuss some thorny issues. The outcome of this discussion will be visualized by a huge fabric, assembled by sewing during a week of collective meetings. The fabric will be created into a quilt of different ideological signs and positions of the group's together with marks of how the group’s relate to each other and actual solutions for different political challenges. By bringing these people together around the central democratic values of equality and freedom, the artist (re)installs a fictional, utopian political model, a model that offers alternatives for today's status quo. On Saturday the 10th during the open studio at 8.30 pm, the fabric formation will give rise to a public discussion.

research phase, Prague (Meetfactory), 2017

in collaboration with

Ludmila Smejkalova' and

RFK, SocSol, INR, KSM, Mladí zelení, Jidelna and Ženy 365

Being together apart

performance in the frame of Hotel Charleroi@mhka/ photo Ilke De Vries

I invited two or three people I met during the hotel Charleroi project
to sit with me in a space
for the duration of half an hour
without speaking
keeping an eye on the spread clocks
drinking together a glass of water every 5 minutes

I repeated this a few times with other invited guests

25 March 2017

short cut tarwewijk (2017)

scale model 'the room', AIR Antwerp

performance maja jantar activating 'the room'

During my residency in AIR I had a scale model of the exhibition space in Hasselt build from tropical wood Wengé and took it back to the students. Each student painted one of the four walls of the scale model. The model can now be shown in exhibition contexts, but must each time be activated by a live sound performance composed from the sleeping sounds.

https://stijnvandorpe.blogspot.be/2016/12/blog-post.html

the 'Room', Z33 Hasselt

photo Kristof Vrancken

For the exhibition in Manufactuur 3.0 in Z33, I worked with pupils from the department painting and decoration techniques from KTA Hasselt. Together we painted an exhibition space using an imitation marble technique. After completing this work, we spend the night in that room and our sleeping sounds were recorded. During the finissage of Manufactuur 3.0, musician Maja Jantar played a set composed of the sleeping sounds recorded in the marbled room.

State of the City

http://basis-frankfurt.de/de/ausstellung/state-city

het contract (installatie)

Voices

voices (film, 2016)

Voices starts from recordings of stories / voices from local residents of the Tarwewijk in Rotterdam.

These stories were collected during the production of short cut Tarwewijk, but did not end up in the final video. During (the course of) two afternoons, these stories / voices from local residents were used as material by local children during a singing workshop in a music studio. A video was made of these workshops in which the political potential of the voice is central. A double, contrasting transfer takes place. Stories that express the moral and political visions of local residents (a kind of linguistic / mental architecture) are passed on (as is the case in life), but in addition there is a learning process that focuses on the voice and its physical, material characteristics. A dichotomy continues to exist between the stories and the musical experiments. The space of art and that of the tarwewijk and life there do not really merge or serve each other but rather comment on each other.

https://vimeo.com/188978220